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A. C. (Antoine Corneille) Oudemans
1831–1895
A Dutch chemist and teacher from the 19th century, he helped shape scientific education in Delft and was part of the early growth of chemistry as a modern discipline in the Netherlands. His career joined laboratory work, publishing, and academic leadership.
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The great sea-serpent : an historical and critical treatise
by A. C. (Antoine Corneille) Oudemans
About the author
Born in Amsterdam in 1831, Antoine Corneille Oudemans studied at Leiden and completed his doctorate in 1853. Soon after, he worked as an assistant to the chemist Gerrit Jan Mulder at Utrecht, beginning a career rooted in both research and teaching.
Oudemans later became a professor of chemistry at the Polytechnic School in Delft, where he was also active in academic leadership and eventually served as director. Biographical sources also credit him as a co-founder and co-editor of one of the first specialist chemistry journals in the Netherlands and the newly independent Belgium, showing how strongly he was involved in building scientific life beyond the classroom.
He died in Delft in 1895. Today he is remembered as part of a family of notable Dutch scholars, and as one of the figures who helped establish chemistry and technical education more firmly in the Netherlands during the 19th century.